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" ,:,:,~'~: :,",;~,';~?':~!~:,-,~:~.~ .....~.~.....~...~.~.,...~:..~.~.~.,,.,~;~ Eurographics'97 Chuck Hansen University of U t a h You know you are off co a good start when the airlines upgrade you for no known reason. Perhaps Malev, one of the conference sponsors, knew I was co attend Eurographics '97, but as I headed to Hungary in unexpected comfort, I knew I was in For a treat_The organizers didn't let me down. Eurographics '97, the I Bth annual conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics, was held September 4-8, 1997 in Budapest, Hungary. This year marked a change in the conference organization. Tutorials and workshops were held before and after the conference but the conference was scheduled to span the weekend. This meant that people could attend while missing less work, and could take advantage of overweekend airfares. Certainly this schedule allowed me co attend this year, and I enthusiastically endorse this new format.This change did not affect the technical content of the conference as there was the full schedule of technical sessions Friday through Sunday. While I did not have a chance to attend any of the tutorials or workshops, the topics were timely, including JavaAPIs, virtual spaces using VR projection systems, multiresolution and level of detail issues, simplification and compression of 3D scenes and an introduction toVRML As usual, the technical program consisted of three tracks: STAR (state of the art reporcs) talks, an industrial stream and the technical paper presentations including planary lectures.This schedule featured so many excellent talks that it was difficult co attend all the talks one would have liked. This is a Feature, not a bug! The industrial stream was quite varied with talks on global technology transfer issues, new emerging media and innovative technologies, electronic commerce and a panel on the future of the Web. For example, Y. Nir of BARCO, talked about the future olr video projecdon technology and gave a solid overview of the current available options, candid in pointing out the pros and cons of the different technologies (don't write off those CRT prejeccors just yet!). The STAR reports covered a range of copics: digital publishing, photorealistic rendering, computational requirements For virtual reality, Web design and the application of volume visualization in medicine.An example of these excellent focused talks Was Frank Devai's lecture on the computational requirements of VR systems. Devai presented a complexity analysis of current polygon rendering algorithms and concluded that current rendering hardware wasn't as computationally efficient as it could be. Of course, tradeoffs sometimes make the non-optimal implementation either perform better in hardware or more cost elfeodve. It will be interesting to see whether his ideas are adopted by computer graphics hardware vendors in the future. The core of the Eurographics conference is the technical program and this year featured an excellent program. The proceedings serves as the writran record for the presentations and there were so many excellent talks that we don't rJy co cover them all here ... we certainly didn't cover them all at the conference! Plenary sessions starred both Friday and Saturday and closed the day Sunday.Thisyear featured three outstanding speakers: Henry Fuchs, Jarek RossJgnac and Franq;oisSJlliorc(Editors no~:The slides of the three keynote speakers are available on-line in Adobe PDF format. Access ht~'//www.eg.org/ConferenceReports/eg9 7.html.) Papers sessions included such areas as surface and solid modeling, rendering and global Jlluminarlon, interaction and perception and animation, continuing the EuregraphJcs ITadjrion of breadth of copies. The technical program began on Friday with Henry Fuchs presenting his vision of the workplace of the future. He described this as integrating VR through large screen displays utilizing the desktop and walls. It is exciting to think about having regular eye glasses double as stereo glasses while being able co collaborate, in 31:),with colleagues throughout the world. In drawing this vision, he described early results from work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After such a lecture, one is so motivated to attack the research problems that it's dil~cult to stay at the conference and listen to lectures! On Saturday,Jarek RossJgnac's plenary talk presented issues and unsolved problems in polygon reduction. His observation that "triangles are the ultimate compression schema for a 4D light field" will certainly keep imagebased rendering folks talking. He eloquently described how the future of 3D graphics over the Web will benefit from, if not be held hostage by, efficient and compact representations and level of detail for modeling. Unfortunately, my travel plans did not allow me to stay for Fran;ois Sillion's plenary talk on Sunday, but reports suggest that his presentation was as stimulating and challenging as the others. The conference venue was the Hmel Agro in the hills overlooking Budapest. The hotel provided good meeting facilities but was removed from the bustle of the city, so there wasn't opportunity For a quick sojourn at a cafe with colleagues. However, the hotel had an excellent 5th floor balcony for debating a technical detail over a cup of coffee or a cool beer while Watching the lights turn on in the city below. Being removed from the city allowed conference particlpan~ ample opportunity for interaction with each other. The social events started with a Thursday evening reception on the balcony with excellent Hungarian specialties accompanied by an endless supply of beer and wine. It was a delightful evening which set the tone for the conference. The Saturday social event was an excellent traditional Hungarian meal at a restaurant in Buda.We were serenaded by musicians while Waiting in the cobblestone courtyard (we Americans have far coo much asphalt) sipping wine and nibbling pastries. Inside the restaurant, more music accompanied course after course of excellent food. I was sad to see the conference end but I look Forward co Portugal and Eurog~ohics '98! Chuck Hansen 51GGRAPI-IDirector-at-Large Department of Computer Science University oFUl~h 50 S.Cenrr'alCampus Dr., Rm. 3190 Salt Lal~ City,UT 64112-9205 Tel: + 1-801-581-3154 Fax:+ I-B01-581-5843 Emaihchuck_hansen@siggraph.org Computer Graphics February 199B 39 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Association for Computing Machinery

Eurographics '97

ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics , Volume 32 (1) – Feb 1, 1998

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Copyright © 1998 by ACM Inc.
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0097-8930
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10.1145/279389.279436
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" ,:,:,~'~: :,",;~,';~?':~!~:,-,~:~.~ .....~.~.....~...~.~.,...~:..~.~.~.,,.,~;~ Eurographics'97 Chuck Hansen University of U t a h You know you are off co a good start when the airlines upgrade you for no known reason. Perhaps Malev, one of the conference sponsors, knew I was co attend Eurographics '97, but as I headed to Hungary in unexpected comfort, I knew I was in For a treat_The organizers didn't let me down. Eurographics '97, the I Bth annual conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics, was held September 4-8, 1997 in Budapest, Hungary. This year marked a change in the conference organization. Tutorials and workshops were held before and after the conference but the conference was scheduled to span the weekend. This meant that people could attend while missing less work, and could take advantage of overweekend airfares. Certainly this schedule allowed me co attend this year, and I enthusiastically endorse this new format.This change did not affect the technical content of the conference as there was the full schedule of technical sessions Friday through Sunday. While I did not have a chance to attend any of the tutorials or workshops, the topics were timely, including JavaAPIs, virtual spaces using VR projection systems, multiresolution and level of detail issues, simplification and compression of 3D scenes and an introduction toVRML As usual, the technical program consisted of three tracks: STAR (state of the art reporcs) talks, an industrial stream and the technical paper presentations including planary lectures.This schedule featured so many excellent talks that it was difficult co attend all the talks one would have liked. This is a Feature, not a bug! The industrial stream was quite varied with talks on global technology transfer issues, new emerging media and innovative technologies, electronic commerce and a panel on the future of the Web. For example, Y. Nir of BARCO, talked about the future olr video projecdon technology and gave a solid overview of the current available options, candid in pointing out the pros and cons of the different technologies (don't write off those CRT prejeccors just yet!). The STAR reports covered a range of copics: digital publishing, photorealistic rendering, computational requirements For virtual reality, Web design and the application of volume visualization in medicine.An example of these excellent focused talks Was Frank Devai's lecture on the computational requirements of VR systems. Devai presented a complexity analysis of current polygon rendering algorithms and concluded that current rendering hardware wasn't as computationally efficient as it could be. Of course, tradeoffs sometimes make the non-optimal implementation either perform better in hardware or more cost elfeodve. It will be interesting to see whether his ideas are adopted by computer graphics hardware vendors in the future. The core of the Eurographics conference is the technical program and this year featured an excellent program. The proceedings serves as the writran record for the presentations and there were so many excellent talks that we don't rJy co cover them all here ... we certainly didn't cover them all at the conference! Plenary sessions starred both Friday and Saturday and closed the day Sunday.Thisyear featured three outstanding speakers: Henry Fuchs, Jarek RossJgnac and Franq;oisSJlliorc(Editors no~:The slides of the three keynote speakers are available on-line in Adobe PDF format. Access ht~'//www.eg.org/ConferenceReports/eg9 7.html.) Papers sessions included such areas as surface and solid modeling, rendering and global Jlluminarlon, interaction and perception and animation, continuing the EuregraphJcs ITadjrion of breadth of copies. The technical program began on Friday with Henry Fuchs presenting his vision of the workplace of the future. He described this as integrating VR through large screen displays utilizing the desktop and walls. It is exciting to think about having regular eye glasses double as stereo glasses while being able co collaborate, in 31:),with colleagues throughout the world. In drawing this vision, he described early results from work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After such a lecture, one is so motivated to attack the research problems that it's dil~cult to stay at the conference and listen to lectures! On Saturday,Jarek RossJgnac's plenary talk presented issues and unsolved problems in polygon reduction. His observation that "triangles are the ultimate compression schema for a 4D light field" will certainly keep imagebased rendering folks talking. He eloquently described how the future of 3D graphics over the Web will benefit from, if not be held hostage by, efficient and compact representations and level of detail for modeling. Unfortunately, my travel plans did not allow me to stay for Fran;ois Sillion's plenary talk on Sunday, but reports suggest that his presentation was as stimulating and challenging as the others. The conference venue was the Hmel Agro in the hills overlooking Budapest. The hotel provided good meeting facilities but was removed from the bustle of the city, so there wasn't opportunity For a quick sojourn at a cafe with colleagues. However, the hotel had an excellent 5th floor balcony for debating a technical detail over a cup of coffee or a cool beer while Watching the lights turn on in the city below. Being removed from the city allowed conference particlpan~ ample opportunity for interaction with each other. The social events started with a Thursday evening reception on the balcony with excellent Hungarian specialties accompanied by an endless supply of beer and wine. It was a delightful evening which set the tone for the conference. The Saturday social event was an excellent traditional Hungarian meal at a restaurant in Buda.We were serenaded by musicians while Waiting in the cobblestone courtyard (we Americans have far coo much asphalt) sipping wine and nibbling pastries. Inside the restaurant, more music accompanied course after course of excellent food. I was sad to see the conference end but I look Forward co Portugal and Eurog~ohics '98! Chuck Hansen 51GGRAPI-IDirector-at-Large Department of Computer Science University oFUl~h 50 S.Cenrr'alCampus Dr., Rm. 3190 Salt Lal~ City,UT 64112-9205 Tel: + 1-801-581-3154 Fax:+ I-B01-581-5843 Emaihchuck_hansen@siggraph.org Computer Graphics February 199B 39

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